From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Aug 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 148
Summary:
Thanks CD for his interesting papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1867
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 415–16
Summary:
Comments on proof-sheets of Variation.
His revisions of Principles of geology, 10th ed.
Contributor:
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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 267 (fragile)
Summary:
Supposes that infants’ eyes bulge and become engorged with blood during fits of sneezing or screaming, but doubts Charles Bell’s experiment of opening and observing eyes turn from pale to red [Anatomy and philosophy of expression (1844)].
Discusses the action of the eye when looking at distant objects.
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 349
Summary:
He is unacquainted with Brehm’s work [Thierleben]. Asks that a volume be sent so he can form an opinion on publishing it.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 330
Summary:
Will do his best to get observations on expression among the Chinese.
Reports observations on hedgehogs collecting fruit with their spines.
Discusses the domestic pig of Formosa, its wild ancestors, and its capacity to breed with other races.
Contributor:
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From:
S Sutton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 322
Summary:
Reports observations, as requested by CD, on expression in chimpanzees and orangs at Zoological Garden, London [see Expression, p. 95].
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From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 328
Summary:
He is planning a new journal to replace Natural History Review. Unlike the old one, it would be confined to reviews and would include an index of works on travel.
Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 163
Summary:
Proposes writing a note for Linnean Society ["Note on the structure of Genista tinctoria", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 468], in part using information CD gave him at Down.
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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 289
Summary:
Discusses a rare shell found by BJS on the Beagle voyage, an account of which has just been written by Davidson [possibly in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 20 (1867): 81–3].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 174–5
Summary:
His opinion of two novels: Mary Barton and North and south [both by Mrs Gaskell].
Sends R. O. Cunningham’s letters.
Contributor:
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From:
Jean-Baptiste-Édouard (Édouard) Bornet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Aug 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 256
Summary:
Sends ten different forms of Draba and Jordan’s instructions on when to sow seeds.
Reports sterility of a cross of two varieties of Papaver.
Thanks CD for a memoir.
Contributor:
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From:
William Angus Knight
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 40
Summary:
Offers CD a room for his forthcoming visit to the BAAS meeting at Dundee.
Contributor:
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From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 117
Summary:
On the breeding out of horns in Galloway cattle.
Has a finely graded series linking the dentition of the rhinoceros with that of the Palaeotherium of the Eocene.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 181: 179
Summary:
Discusses coral reefs and sends CD his paper on "Coral reefs present and past" [Cotteswold Club Proc. 4 (1868): 60–74].
Contributor:
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From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 118
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s letter; hopes by his work to add one grain of proof to CD’s theories.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 176–7
Summary:
Has given up Scotland trip due to his mother’s illness.
Asks for Fritz Müller’s full name – "he can help us much".
Reports on self-impregnated Victoria and impregnation of Chatsworth plants. Difficult to get foreman [of gardens] to keep accurate register.
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